Серия "Wesleyan Poetry in Translation"

<P>Antonio Machado, a school teacher and philosopher and one of Spain's foremost poets of the twentieth century, writes of the mountains, the skies, the farms and the sentiments of his homeland clearly and without narcissism: «Just as before, I'm interested/in water held in;/ but now water in the living/rock of my chest.» «Machado has vowed not to soar too much; he wants to ‘go down to the hells' or stick to the ordinary,» Robert Bly writes in his...